Changing America
Subtitle: 1865-1900.
Contributors: Nextext.
Series: Stories in history
Publisher: McDougal Littel
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Evanston, IL
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
Subjects: United States -- History -- 1865-1898 -- Juvenile literature.; Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) -- Juvenile literature.; Immigrants -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Juvenile literature.; United States -- History -- 1865-1900.; United States -- Social conditions -- 1865-1918 -- Juvenile literature.
Genres: Juvenile literature.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-201)
Table of contents: title: Background: Changes in the South ; Western expansion ; Growth of industry and wealth ; Changes in society ; Time line; title: Reconstruction: Reconstruction and P.B.S. Pinchback,  1867-1877 / Judith Lloyd Yero ; Ida B. Wells, 1892 / Stephen Currie ; In the land of Jim Crow, 1892-1900 / Stephen Feinstein; title: The immigrants: Gold mountain, 1882 / Diane Wilde ; Traveling steerage, 1890 / Dee Masters ; A day at Ellis Island, 1895-1900 / Stephen Currie ; Breakers boys, late 1800s / Diane Wilde ; My day in the sweatshop, late 1800s / Marianne McComb; title: Industrialization and the end of the frontier: "Half a world behind each back", May 10, 1869 / Walter Hazen ; Cornelius Vanderbilt, robber baron, 1878 / Diane Wilde ; The gunfight at the O.K. Corral, October 26, 1881 / Fitzgerald Higgins ; Yellin' Mary Ellen, the voice of the Populists, 1890-1896 / Judith Lloyd Yero ; Tragedy at Wounded Knee, December 29, 1890 / Judith Lloyd Yero; title: Reform: Susan B. Anthony is arrested, 1872-1873 / Walter Hazen ; The man who exposed the slums, 1889 / Marianne McComb ; Carry Nation, 1892 / Stephen Currie; title: Glossary.